Adjuvant Therapy Shows Promise in Biliary Tract Cancer

(HealthDay News) – For patients with biliary tract cancers, postresection adjuvant therapy with chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy appears to be beneficial in treating patients with biliary tract cancers, with significant improvement seen for patients with node or margin positivity.

Anne M. Horgan, MD, of the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto, and colleagues conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of 20 studies involving 6,712 patients to study the impact of adjuvant therapy on the survival of patients with biliary tract cancer.